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  • Why Are So Many Protestant Students Converting to Catholicism?

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    April 2, 2026

  • California’s ACA 7 Is Affirmative Action With a New Name

    April 1, 2026

  • The Loneliest Generation Turns to AI for Intimacy

    March 31, 2026

  • Trump Is Losing the Campus DEI Battle

    March 30, 2026

  • We Need to Teach Public Speaking

    We Need to Teach Public Speaking

    Colleges give too little attention to public speaking, leaving students unprepared for careers that demand strong communication skills
    Hannah Hutchins
    April 10, 2026

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  • Why Are So Many Protestant Students Converting to Catholicism?

    Why Are So Many Protestant Students Converting to Catholicism?

    The pursuit of truth has a great deal to do with it.
    Jared Gould
    April 9, 2026

    It was brisk last weekend in College Station, Texas, but the weather did nothing to deter students from packing into St. Mary’s Catholic Center, which serves Aggie Catholics at Texas…


  • Too Many Dogs Are Eating Too Much Homework

    Too Many Dogs Are Eating Too Much Homework

    Students rely on trivial excuses to avoid academic responsibility—universities must stop accepting them.
    Rebekah Wanic
    April 8, 2026

    “I’m not going to be in class today because I have to take my dog to the vet.” “I will miss the exam for a family vacation. How do I…


  • 75% of Truman Scholarship Reviewers are Democrats

    75% of Truman Scholarship Reviewers are Democrats

    The lopsided panels help explain a decade of scarce conservative winners.
    Matt Lamb
    April 8, 2026

    Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the College Fix on April 7, 2026. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Democrats dominate…


  • What ChatGPT Is Doing to Student Writing

    What ChatGPT Is Doing to Student Writing

    Today’s students can write a perfect sentence that says absolutely nothing.
    Liza Libes
    April 7, 2026

    I’ve been editing college application essays for about 10 years now. Every year, I encounter a broad array of writing abilities, ranging from high school seniors who submit fifth-grade-level essays…


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Roundups

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Artificial Intelligence →

  • What ChatGPT Is Doing to Student Writing
    April 7, 2026

    What ChatGPT Is Doing to Student Writing

    Today’s students can write a perfect sentence that says absolutely nothing.
  • Melania Trump Presents AI-Powered Educators at White House Summit
    April 2, 2026

    Melania Trump Presents AI-Powered Educators at White House Summit

    The vision of robot educators points less to innovation than to the erosion of the human foundations of learning.
  • The Loneliest Generation Turns to AI for Intimacy
    March 31, 2026

    The Loneliest Generation Turns to AI for Intimacy

    One in five high schoolers has begun using AI for emotional and romantic engagement.
  • Why Not Use AI to Cross the Language Barrier in Academic Publishing?
    March 25, 2026

    Why Not Use AI to Cross the Language Barrier in Academic Publishing?

    Groundbreaking research may be going unpublished because of language barriers. AI can fix that, if we let it.

Campus Culture →

  • Why Are So Many Protestant Students Converting to Catholicism?
    April 9, 2026

    Why Are So Many Protestant Students Converting to Catholicism?

    The pursuit of truth has a great deal to do with it.
  • Universities Put the ‘Men’ in Women’s History Month
    March 13, 2026

    Universities Put the ‘Men’ in Women’s History Month

    Events include transgender ‘gender equity’ speakers, intersectionality seminars, and sex-toy lessons.
  • Small Liberal Arts Colleges Are Not Winning
    March 2, 2026

    Small Liberal Arts Colleges Are Not Winning

    Elite liberal-arts colleges are no refuge from conformity, cost, or decline.
  • What the Ivy League Is Really Selling
    February 10, 2026

    What the Ivy League Is Really Selling

    Not a better education, but elite social formation.

China →

  • America’s Universities Have Chosen Foreign Interests Over Their Own Country
    April 7, 2026

    America’s Universities Have Chosen Foreign Interests Over Their Own Country

    The National Association of Scholars’s new report lays out a concrete policy roadmap to restore higher education to the national interest.
  • Out With the Snake Pits, In With the Strategists
    April 1, 2026

    Out With the Snake Pits, In With the Strategists

    Defunding area studies was right. But America needs to build something better.
  • Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling
    December 9, 2025

    Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling

  • Is America the Only Country That Won’t Take Campus Espionage Seriously?
    November 19, 2025

    Is America the Only Country That Won’t Take Campus Espionage Seriously?

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion →

  • California’s ACA 7 Is Affirmative Action With a New Name
    April 1, 2026

    California’s ACA 7 Is Affirmative Action With a New Name

    For Asian American students, it’s the latest chapter in the state’s long history of anti-Asian discrimination.
  • Trump Is Losing the Campus DEI Battle
    March 30, 2026

    Trump Is Losing the Campus DEI Battle

    Trump cannot win the fight against campus DEI culture alone.
  • Japanese Universities Abandon Merit
    March 26, 2026

    Japanese Universities Abandon Merit

    As the West walks back gender studies, Japan is opening the door.
  • Student Essay: A Slow March Left
    March 24, 2026

    Student Essay: A Slow March Left

    A short take on the decades-long development of ideological imbalance in higher education.

Foreign Students →

  • Universities Push Sanctuary Campus Agenda for Illegal Immigrants
    January 28, 2026

    Universities Push Sanctuary Campus Agenda for Illegal Immigrants

    Illegal migrant enrollment helps universities meet demographic thresholds associated with preferential public funding.
  • What the New International Enrollment Drop Really Shows
    December 17, 2025

    What the New International Enrollment Drop Really Shows

  • Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling
    December 9, 2025

    Chinese University of Michigan Researcher Deported for Biopathogen Smuggling

  • Trump’s Social Media Vetting Faces Free Speech Backlash. But Some Foreign Students Agree with Him.
    November 3, 2025

    Trump’s Social Media Vetting Faces Free Speech Backlash. But Some Foreign Students Agree with Him.

Sciences →

  • The Scientists Who Declared War on Half of America
    March 9, 2026

    The Scientists Who Declared War on Half of America

    Michael Mann and Peter Hotez call scientists into a partisan fight.
  • Reversing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding Won’t Stop the ‘Green’ Agenda in Your Town
    March 6, 2026

    Reversing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding Won’t Stop the ‘Green’ Agenda in Your Town

    Just ask Syracuse’s tree-planting mayor.
  • Trump Lowers the Thermostat State
    February 13, 2026

    Trump Lowers the Thermostat State

    Revoking the EPA’s greenhouse gas finding reopens debate over economic tradeoffs, industrial competitiveness, and academia’s embrace of climate orthodoxy.
  • 10,000 PhDs
    February 13, 2026

    10,000 PhDs

    A closer look at the alleged STEM ‘exodus’ reveals not a national emergency, but a government-engineered surplus decades in the making.

Workforce Pipeline →

  • A White-Collar Trade School?
    January 29, 2026

    A White-Collar Trade School?

    A view that college should prepare students for immediate employment is now mainstream across America.
  • Is College Dead—or Just Changing?
    January 28, 2026

    Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    An ed-tech executive argues higher education must adapt to AI as students and institutions prioritize job-market returns.
  • A Market Test
    January 21, 2026

    A Market Test

    Degrees that don’t deliver face a federal cutoff—just as the job market grows less forgiving.
  • That’s Not Good
    January 15, 2026

    That’s Not Good

    A weak job market awaits recent graduates—and young men are feeling the contraction most.

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